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Longney

Nearest town: Gloucester

Site type: churchyard

Access: Public

Church name: St Laurence

Diocese: Gloucester

County: Gloucestershire

Country: England

Grid ref: SO76371243

Lost yew site: No

Date visited: 10-Mar-03

Recorded by: Tim Hills

Protection & responsibility: Parochial Church Council

Yews recorded at this site: Ancient 4m-5m

Notes: In 1938 Mee recorded: 'Of all the fine trees around the church the most splendid is the old yew with branches caressing the walls and reaching almost to the churchyard gate. It shades a patch of ground over 60 yards round, and under it lies a 13th century coffin lid'. The yew grows WNW of the church.